I just tried recompiling the kernel with CONFIG_FILTER set and now dhclient also works. I must have overlooked something when trying that option before. Anyway, so the mistery is solved. :-) Auke On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 21:22, Hubert Chan wrote: > >>>>> "Auke" == Auke Jilderda <jilderda@dds.nl> writes: > > Auke> Why do I need the CONFIG_FILTER for DHCP? Seems unrelated to me. > > Me too. From what I can tell (from > /usr/share/doc/dhcp3-client/dhcp-on-linux.txt), it seems Linux doesn't > allow network interfaces to be bound to 0.0.0.0, which is required for > dhcp. So dhclient needs to use CONFIG_FILTER to work around it. How > pump does it, I don't know. > > -- > Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ > PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA > Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA > Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- PGP: 0x4A34DD6D, http://bunny.sourceforge.net/
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